Saturday, August 15, 2015

10 Romance Short Story Markets that Pay Royalties

One of the differences between romance and science-fiction/fantasy/horror/mystery/furry/literary markets is that other genres pay better and often pay per word. It might be a professional rate of 6 cents a word or a semi-pro rate of 1/2 a cent per word, but it is still paying. What I have seen of romance markets is that they offer royalties and no advance like many small publishers of novels these days. Which isn't to say you won't make money. Some authors do well. Some do better self-publishing. Some sell a story and later self-publish it when the rights revert back to them.

About Me

Though Lady Chastity Chatterley's first publication in the realm of
erotica will soon to be out in Hot Dish, she also has written under
other pseudonyms in magazines and anthologies such as: Daily Science
Fiction, Bards and Sages, New Myths, Penumbra, Crossed Genres, Flagship,
Roar, and has won awards from Allasso and Romance Writers of America.
By day, Chastity Chatterley is often busy chasing pirates in her
dirigible and shooting steam powered laser beams, while by night she
teaches and performs belly dance. One might wonder how she has any
leftover time to test the functions of her "Personal Contraption" (or PC
as some call it), surf the "interweb" as she calls it or use her public
log (or plog). Feel free to visit her at Lady Chatterley's Chat Parlor
and peruse her posts on comma sutra, racy thoughts of the day, lists of
worst first dates or other amusing and sinfully sexy anecdotes.